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No. 10. Statement showing the Price of Gold per Ounce, Price charged per Ton for crushing Quartz or Cement, and Prices charged for Water per Sluice-head per Week, during the Year ending 31st December, 1908.

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District. Price of Goldper Ounce. Price charged per Ton for crushing Quartz or Cement. Price charged for Water per Sluicehead per Week. Remarks. Auckland— Thames Coromandel £2 £ s. d. 2 9 6 £2 13s. 6d. to £3 17s. 6d. 4 4 0 4 4 0 4 4 0 £ s. d. 2 9 6 2 13s. 6d. to £ 17s. 6d. £ s. d. 0 5 0 £3 10s. to 15s. £ s. d. £3 to £4 40 in. sluice-head. Paeroa Te Aroha Waihi .. Tauranga -LIB. UU. 4 4 0 4 4 0 4 4 0 0 10 0 Marlborough—Havelock Blenheim 3 14 6 3 15 0 3 14 6 0 8 6 3 15 0 Nelson— Wangapeka Motueka.. Charleston Inangahua CoUingwood Takaka Westport Murchison Lyell .. £: £3 10s. to £3 15s. 3 12 0 3 19 0 4 0 0 £3 13s. 6d. to £4 3 14 0 3 17 6 £3 17s. to £3 19s. £3 17s. to £3 19s. 13 10s. to £3 15s. 3 12 0 0 i 2 20 in. 4 0 0 £3 13s. 6d. to £4 i S3 17s. to £3 19s. no i n~ i.- Oo in. £3 17s. to £3 19s. Westland—Hokitika, Kanieri, and) Waimea .. ) Totara and Ross Stafford Greymouth £3 18s. to £4 £3 18s. to £4 3 18 0 3 18 0 3 19 0 3 18 0 0 3 0 0 15 0 0 10 0 Sluice-heads 20 in. by 12 in. Government race, 2Jd. per head per hour; Erin-go-Bragh, 4Jd. per head per hour. 3 19 0 Kumara 3 18 0 3 18 0 Ahaura Okarito . 3 19 0 3 18 0 3 19 0 0 10 0 10 0 Otago and Southland —Hindon Tuapeka Longwood Preservation and Waiau Orepuki and Round Hill Arrow (Wakatipu Goldfield) and Queenstown Mount Ida .. ~\ Macrae's, Hyde .. Hamilton, Serpentine ) Maerewhenua Cromwell 3 17 0 3 17 6 3 17 0 •• 2 io 0 I 3 18 6 3 18 6 1 10 0 Government head. 3 17 0 3 17 0 0 3 6 15 0 3 17 6 3 17 6 0 10 0 40 in. 3 17 0 3 17 0 3 17 0 3 17 0 0 *8 0 3 '6 0 144 hours, Government sluice-head. Waikaia Tapanui Wyndham Roxburgh .. j Clyde and Alexandra [■ Black's .. .. J Gore 3 17 6 3 17 6 3 18 0 3 17 6 3 17 6 2 10 0 2 10 0 3 18 0 3 17 6 3 17 6 40 in. 3 17 6 3 17 6 2 10 0